Mikaela Kumlander

I am working as a post-graduate researcher in the Computational Cognitive Systems group. My instructors are Krista Lagus and Timo Honkela, and also Kimmo Koskenniemi from the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki. I graduated from the University of Helsinki in 2005. My major was Language Technology, and my minor subjects included Computer Science, French Philology and Japanology. Currently, I am a post-graduate student of Language Technology and Computer and Information Science at the Helsinki University of Technology. My research interests include machine translation, automatic discovery of morphology and parsing technologies, particularly from the point of view of statistical and unsupervised machine learning methods. I'm also interested in other emergent representations in natural language processing and artificial intelligence in general.

Publications:

• Mikaela Klami. Unsupervised discovery of morphs in children's stories and their use in Self-Organizing Map -based analysis. Master's Thesis. University of Helsinki, Department of General Linguistics, Helsinki, Finland. 2005. pdf


• Mikaela Klami and Krista Lagus. Unsupervised word categorization using Self-Organizing Maps and automatically extracted morphs. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2006), LNCS 4224, pages 912-919, Springer-Verlag. 2006. (forthcoming)

Contact Information:

Visiting address:	Room A335 Laboratory of Computer and Information Science Computer Science Building, 3rd floor Konemiehentie 2, Otaniemi campus, Espoo, Finland
Mail address:	Helsinki University of Technology Laboratory of Computer and Information Science Adaptive Informatics Research Centre P.O. Box 5400, FI-02015 TKK, Finland
Email:	mikaela.kumlander -AT- tkk.fi
Fax:	+358-9-451 3277